Making Friends with Your Mind: The Key to Contentment

Have you ever found yourself thinking your way into a tangle of fret, frustration, or gloom? And then something small-a few kind words, the sun glancing through the clouds, a warm cup of tea-gave you a welcome pause from all your inner chatter? With Making Friends with Your Mind, that's what Pema Chödrön helps us to do, not by chance but with our full intention: to stop fighting with our thoughts and reopen ourselves to wonder as naturally as we breathe.

The Buddha saw that the human exper...